October 20, 2007
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Ken Rockwell may well be one of the world’s greatest serious photographers and probably the most knowledgable. I love reading his site, mainly because 90% of my knowledge came from him for FREE. I love it when photographers just love what they do so much they want to help and teach others and not try to rip us all off. Anyway, Ken tests all the cameras including Canon. He does love Canons but seems to be partial to his Nikons (ofcourse
). As you may or may NOT know Nikon has made the WORLDS greatest camera the D3. It is FULL FRAME, and it kicks the Canon 1Ds Mark 111 ass all the way to camera hell. This King daddy hits ISO 6400 in every mode and can max at 25,600 in custom function. Holy depth of field batman! Along with the greatest lens ever the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S the widest lens available (only by nikon hehe) this first shot was accomplished. Now I am giving full credit to all the photographers who were awesome enough to be chosen to test the camera. You should really go to Ken Rockwell’s Site to see the real pictures and read the full article. BTW. I have mine on order! hopefully it will be here by my birthday November 4.
This is by Dave Black Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S at 14mm, f/4 at 1/1,000, manual exposure, direct sunlight WB. This is the best possible example image to show off the D3 and the new 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S lens.
This shot couldn’t have been made any way other than with the Nikon D3 and a 14mm lens.
These images are UNEDITED!
Photographer: Mike CorradoISO 1,600, Nikkor 400mm, TC-17E converter, f/6.3 at 1/250, Matrix meter, -0.3 compensation, shutter priority, Auto WB. UNEDITED
Photographer: Joe McNally
ISO 200, f/16 at 1/10, Manual exposure, Cloudy WB.
UNEDITED (see how manipulating the white balance changes everything)
Take some time, a few hours and read and read and read somemore on Ken Rockwell’s site! You wont be disappionted, only educated!
Do you even know the value of a full frame camera..Take a pie for example, all DSLR cameras are 35mm its like seeing only 1/8 of the pie well you see the whole thing but you only capture an eighth of it. With full frame you get the whole pie. notice the crops above from the originals, they are what you could maybe get with a regular 35mm and this is a partial crop from the full frame D3……UNBELIEVABLE!
Comments (6)
nice to see some fellow NIKON lovers out there… I call myself nikon user 19… I used to think there were only like 37 of us left… I am stoked on this new camera and Nikon finally pulling it off… BTW… Got to see the Red Wings play twice last week. vs LA and that team I hate from Anaheim… Take care and have a great weekend…
yea…another nikon fanboy here!
D3 is godlike!!!
I’m curious. What did you mean when you talked about getting ripped off and then linking to Becker’s site?
What I mean is, that many photographers are in the bussiness more to sell to other photograpers and charge outrageous amounts of money for things that are very simple to do like the actions etc. When you purchase these actions for photoshop you pay a lot of money for something that can be done very easily and more important these actions wont work that great for you. they have benn built by the photographer for his images. i have a ton of actions that i have created, and they dont all work the same on every image. a lot depends on how they will turn out. the lighting condition plays a huge role. i once purchased DJ’s set to see and none of them work for me! Also they want to teach you things, and charge huge amounts of money and honestly i have to ask, are they that good to begin with? When i look at photogrpahers like Jay Maisel, Joe McNally and others, i see real photography, not photoshoped to death. I love what is said, photoshop should be a fix it program. you need to learn to get it right to begin with and then, use photoshop to enhance the picture. from what i read about Becker, he seems like a nice enough guy, but his actions are so expensive and anyone can make them for themsleves. http://www.photoshopuser.com has a ton of free tutorials on all of this. for technical and instructional advice http://www.kenrockwell is there. Gary Fong releases a new diffuser all the time. the PPA magazine this month dogs it and shows a much better one. His new diffuser is so huge i would be embarrased to use it in public. At a wedding we try to blend in, not gonna happpen with that thing. anyway, ofcourse this is all my opnion and not fact, i didnt say any of it to offend anyone, if i did i appologize.
I love what is said, photoshop should be a fix it program. (SHOULDNT)
Ah yes, I understand. Yeah, I have bought a number of actions and was disappointed as well. The one set I have never regretted getting is the Kubota set. They are awesome.
And I bought the Whaletail. I was quite disappointed. I love the Lightsphere, however. Even thought it slips off sometimes, it has done the job for me.